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Started by SoS, January 28, 2012, 05:55:10 PM

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January 28, 2012, 05:55:10 PM Last Edit: May 18, 2012, 03:56:50 PM by SoS
I've been thinking about this for a while now, I don't know if it's the new forum look that's making me want to start new threads now ;) or the fact that I'm medicated :p, but we should have a field for product ID Numbers in a submitted record instead of chugging it in as part of the package record name. We already collect UPC, assortment numbers, and product codes so this shouldn't be too bad. Hasbro has been starting to use their own version of "ID numbers" recently. You can even try to say they have been using it for years. Few examples:

Generation 1, Energon or any of the combiners. The "combiner numbers" may not necessarily be ID Numbers, but you get my drift. All the Cyberverse DOTM toys definitely can be considered. Also, though not pictured, the Prime toyline use it as well with their Cyberverse subline and the First Edition toys.

Even if we don't use it for the Hasbro toys, they definitely can/will be used by the TakaraTomy releases. Actually they can be used by other toylines: Gobots, Kre-O, LEGO, Star Wars, Marvel Universe.

Thoughts?


--SoS

Wajo357

Its definitely a good idea to have for other toy lines that use it more...

But that would mean another sort field..
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shmax

It's okay with me, and the idea has occurred to me many times before, but what do we gain by doing it? The advantage to including it in the name is that, as Wajo says, we can sort on it naturally. If it's a separate field we can't really sort on it anymore, because it's information that only a relatively small subset of the toys have. What I could do, however, is separate the name and id fields out as SoS suggests, then concatenate the terms into the internal string we use for sorting. So, it would look and behave as it does now, but you would have separate fields at the data level. I can see some advantages to doing it this way when parsing eBay auction titles, but what else do we gain?

Hellscream333

Yet another way to ID a toy I suppose but that's really only going to be helpful to hardcore collectors. Your average joe is just going to go by color or name.

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